About Jed Blackwell

Jed Blackwell has been a sportswriter for 19 years. He began his career in Horry County, covering Loris, North Myrtle Beach and Green Sea-Floyds High Schools. Blackwell was the Sports Editor at Hometown News for 15 years, covering Spartanburg County through weekly publications countywide. In his time at Hometown News, Blackwell won 59 South Carolina Press Association awards for writing, design, and photography, including multiple first place awards for sports news stories, sports feature stories and sports column writing, and the 2011 Best of the Best award for Sports Feature Writing. He lives in Roebuck with his wife, Bonnie and Cooper the Wonder Dog.